Top 3 Quotes by Humphrey Carpenter

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Nice, Magic, Tricks

Humphrey Carpenter (2003). “Mr Majeika and the School Trip”, p.1, Penguin UK

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Humphrey Carpenter

Stars, Moving, Ideas

Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin